Cemeteries

Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its
graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built
after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded in 1699, but we understand it was closed before 1968.

The location of the Chapel can be seen on Old Maps. It was on the north-east side of what was then Barton Street, but is now Eastgate. The division between the two was formerly at the junction with Brunswick Road, Barton Street extending from there to the junction with India Road, whereas today Eastgate runs from The Cross to All Saints Church, and Barton Street starts at that point.

The Chapel was built in 1699 for a society of Presbyterians and Independents, of which James FORBES, formerly lecturer at the Cathedral was pastor. The Independents left in 1715, three years after Forbes's death, to form a separate church in Southgate, whilst the Presbyterians retained the building, "to which they called ministers of increasingly unorthodox views". By 1815 it had become Unitarian. In 1893, the chapel was refitted, but by 1968 it had become derelict, though it is believed a congregation continued to meet privately, by 1986 it had been demolished. However there is a photograph of it in Jill Voyce's book Gloucester in Old Photographs (from the County Library Collection, 1985), showing it had a three-bay front, with 2 tiers of round-arched windows, central doorway, and denticulated pediment.

The burial ground which was attached was cleared in August 1969, and the remains were reinterred in the Old Gloucester Cemetery on Tredworth Road; however examination of the cemetery records has revealed that only a few names of those buried have survived. The Gloucestershire Family History Society do however have a record of the MIs, and there are transcriptions of those inside the Chapel on Stuart Flight's site -
City of Gloucester Places of Worship.

Note: Revd. Thomas Dudley Fosbrooke's An Original History
of the City of Gloucester (1819) states that the Unitarians were meeting in Barton Street, citing the premises as one of eight non-conformist chapels in Gloucester at that time.
[Other Sources: John Williams, and Rosemary Lockie, from
Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses, Gloucestershire (1986)]

Denomination

Now or formerly Presbyterian/Unitarian.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here,
or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this
will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Chapel was located at OS grid reference SO8340918386. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays)
Zoom out to 1:100000 to see County boundaries, and 1:500000 to show Parish Boundaries.

Reference

Places recorded by the Registrar
General under the provisions of the Places of Worship
Registration Act 1855 (2010) is available as a
"Freedom of Information" document from the website
What Do They Know.

You can specify either a Place, or OS Grid Reference to
search for. When you specify a Place, only entries for that place
will be returned, with Places of Worship listed in alphabetical
order. If you specify a Grid Reference, Places of Worship in the
immediate vicinity will be listed, in order of distance from the Grid
Reference supplied. The default is to list 10, but you can specify
How Many you want to see, up to a maximum of 100.

You can further refine your search by supplying other search terms.

You can specify entries with ('Yes') or without ('No') photographs.

You can specify a church or chapel's Dedication, to restrict entries to
those containing the term you supply as a dedication. So for instance, 'John'
would return 'St John', 'St Mary and St John', 'St John the Divine' &c.

You can specify a Street address, and likewise 'George' will return
George Place, St George's Street, George and Dragon, &c.

You can restrict the search to classes of Denomination. The exact denomination
is always shown in the results, although the search is for broad types. So you
can search for 'Methodist', but not 'Wesleyan Methodist' or 'Primitive Methodist'.
'Multi-denominational' includes Ecumenical Partnerships, and
'Other' means anything not covered by other broad classes.

Please note the above provides a search of selected fields in
the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship
Database on this site (churchdb.gukutils.org.uk) only.
For other counties, or for a full search of the Database, you might
like to try the site's
Google Custom Search, which includes full webpage content.

Further Information

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of worship and cemeteries. It has no affiliation with the churches or
congregations themselves, nor is it intended to provide a means to find
places of worship in the present day.